The landlords of the Red Lion Inn in Wimborne, Dorset, say they have captured the moment a glass appeared to leap off a shelf and crash onto the bar - and they believe a thirsty ghost may be responsible.
Footage shows glass 'jumping' from shelf
Joe and Sarah Sanders, who have run the pub for five years, shared CCTV footage on Facebook showing a glass flying off the shelf above the bar and landing on the counter. The clip, recorded on June 4, shows Sarah putting another glass away as the mystery missile falls, with a customer looking on in shock.
The couple captioned the video: "Every pub has a ghost, especially one as old as ours. They clearly wanted a pint!"
Landlord believes it could be an old customer
Sarah, 54, showed the footage to her husband Joe, 50, who said he believes it could be a ghostly customer visiting for a drink. Joe, from Wimborne, said: "I was upstairs, my wife was at the counter and she showed me the video on the CCTV."
"It nearly hit her. It didn't break either, which is weird. There's been a running joke with glasses falling, normally from the bottom shelf and we just thought they're badly put away."
"Things in the kitchen have gone flying off before [it's] very random. This is the first time we've actually seen it."
'Not spooked' by the ghost
Joe admitted he had previously thought glasses were being put away awkwardly, but after watching the footage he says it simply "pops off". He added: "When you look at it, it kind of looks like it jumps. We live right opposite a churchyard and there's always that joke about that [as] we're only across the road."
"Lots of people thought we have a poltergeist, it was actually quite weird. Maybe it could be an old customer, he clearly wanted a pint."
Joe said he is not worried about the unusual occurrences: "I'm certainly not worried. It doesn't bother me [...] everything seems to happen around the bar."
"It's weird. We can't believe the glass didn't break, it bounced off the bar and on the floor. Everyone I show it to says it's just bizarre, you zoom in on the glass and see it pop off. I think customers are more interested than freaked out. I'm not really spooked by it."
